meal plans: 1-11-01
Taking the time to write out my meal plans again this week. This may become a regular segment!
Recap of last week: We were pretty successful in eating on plan. Our cottage cheese for the baked potatoes went bad before we could use it. The frozen steam-in-bag veges (Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers) were both a great success – Broccoli, Cauliflower, Carrot with Cheese sauce and Buttery Rice with Vegetables – I’ll certainly get these again. I didn’t end up making the pizza crust thinner as planned because I just couldn’t imagine how it would roll out. And I ate it all instead of saving some for lunch, it’s just too good to pass up. Omelets turned out *great*, I’m excited to try this again.
For this coming week, we don’t have many plans for leaving the house, so I needed more days worth of menu plans. Only a few leftovers remained from last week, so working off that didn’t help for ideas. A Costco trip means inexpensive red peppers (bag of 6), so I wanted meals to use that.
- Monday: out (at Olive Garden – Apricot Chicken) and grocery shopping (Costco, Safeway)
- Tuesday: Red Pepper soup (adjusted from AllRecipes) and yogurt rolls (@theredkitchen) modded with herbs and cornmeal
- Wednesday: Salad with carrots, leftover yogurt rolls turned into sandwiches with cheese and vege-turkey lunchmeat
- Thursday: Asian meal: fried rice (recipe @weightwatchers), chicken strips, steamed dumpling/wontons, and apple wontons (recipe @weightwatchers) for desert.
- Friday: Roasted vegetables (zucchini, onion, pepper, garlic) over whole wheat pasta with morningstar sausage (recipe @foodnetwork). maybe desert to go with this?
- Saturday: out? No plans yet.
- Sunday: Mexican meal: quasadillas on corn tortillas with 2% mexican shred, roased veges, chicken strips. E could make tacos with beans.
The asian meal was inspired from our trip to CA, where we helped make the giant Beeson-Vixie asian meal they do when there’s a holiday or something special going on. It’s all vegetarian, with great sauces and fried foods to go with. When I saw my Weight Watchers app highlighting fried rice, I thought it was about time to try it.
I watched the first episode (Penne for Pennies) of Ten Dollar Dinners from the winner of the Food Network Star (watched some eps on New Years Eve!) this weekend, and I loved her creation. I’m modifying it for what we like and to be vegetarian, it was a really good base idea.
We ended up with a wide variety of things from Costco that we didn’t plan on buying, but all will be useful. E got hummus and pita crackers for lunches. I got a couple of microwave dinners with good low WW point values. I got a WeightWatchers magazine from the 30% off magazine rack, and I’m excited to be inspired with that for next week. Also, a gift card for Jamba Juice was 39.99 and worth $50, so that will be a good thing to use in the coming months for evening treats here and there. A lot of our purchases, we had Costco member coupons for (saving $22.25!).
It looks to be a good week, all in all 🙂
